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## A Legacy Is Measured in Memories
Eventually, awards become statistics.
Ratings become historical records.
Television schedules become archived documents.
But memories remain personal.
A television icon’s greatest legacy may be the thousands—or millions—of people who can still remember exactly where they were when they watched a particular moment.
That is an extraordinary achievement.
It means the person’s work escaped the boundaries of a television screen.